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    RECTILINEAR REGRESSION

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    The relation between variables when the regression equation is linear: e.g., y = ax + bplay

    Synonyms:

    linear regression; rectilinear regression

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

    Hypernyms ("rectilinear regression" is a kind of...):

    regression; regression toward the mean; simple regression; statistical regression (the relation between selected values of x and observed values of y (from which the most probable value of y can be predicted for any value of x))

    Meronyms (parts of "rectilinear regression"):

    regression coefficient (when the regression line is linear (y = ax + b) the regression coefficient is the constant (a) that represents the rate of change of one variable (y) as a function of changes in the other (x); it is the slope of the regression line)

    Domain category:

    statistics (a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters)

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